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Belle Hearth Bed & Breakfast
 | Belle Hearth Bed & Breakfast |
Belle Hearth Bed and Breakfast is located in the Shenandoah Valley in the historic district of Waynesboro, Virginia. Belle Hearth offers three guest rooms and one suite, a swimming pool, and can accommodate small weddings, bridal and baby showers, and small meetings. Belle Hearth is committed to environmental excellence and works to minimize environmental impacts whenever possible.
Green Lodging Activities:
When visiting Belle Hearth Bed & Breakfast, you can expect the following practices:
- Provides optional linen service in rooms
- Offers recycling opportunities to guests
- Practices water & energy conservation
- Offers a green events/conference package
- Use of low flow restrictors, sensors, and fixtures
- Low flow toilets
- Preventative maintenance of drips and leaks
- High efficiency HVAC using natural gas and individual thermostats
- Lighting sensors
- High efficiency compact fluorescent lighting
- Insulation and storm windows
- Integrated pest management plan in place
- Lawn areas replaced with low maintenance beds
- Effectively timed application of organic fertilizers
- Abundance of indoor plants
- Use of glasses, dishware, etc instead of disposables
- Paper, cardboard, can, bottle, newspaper recycling
- Optional free papers (not delivered automatically to the room)
- Use citrus-based cleaners
- Effective food inventory management
- Low toxicity cleansers
- Composting of food wastes
- Water efficient washers – those that reuse or filter wash waters
- Energy efficient dryers
- Linen segregation for lightly soiled loads
- Purchase of recycled content paper
- Purchase of durable/well-made products w/long life
- Purchase of energy-efficient equipment
- Policies for 2-sided copying and printing
- Extensive use of electronic documents and records
- Purchasing from vendors with commitment to the environment
- Preventative maintenance on all vehicles and equipment
- Fuel-efficient vehicles
- Use of latex paints
- Reuse/donation of unused materials
- Effective system of hazardous waste storage, labeling and handling
- Use of sustainable building materials (furniture made from bamboo)
- Reused building materials (vintage flooring, beams, stonework, fixtures)